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+# Benchmark corpus and derived data — distributed as artifacts, never in git.
+# hero/ is ~130 MB of film clips and dvu-hero/ the DVU annotations and gallery
+# built from them. Both are reproducible: scripts/fetch_dvu.sh pulls the
+# annotations and mugshots, and the clips come from the DVU movie.shots set.
+# Replay fixtures derived from them ship via
+# scene-actor-extraction/scripts/artifacts/push_artifacts.sh replay-fixtures
+hero/
+dvu-hero/
+
+# Local agent session state
+.claude/